Table 3 Reversal in intervention and control infants with nonsynostotic plagiocephaly at 2 months and 4 months
From: Nonsynostotic plagiocephaly: a child health care intervention in Skaraborg, Sweden
REVERSAL | Chi-2 test | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention subgroups | Control subgroups | 2 - sided | ||||
Early reversal | Early reversal | |||||
Cranial shape | cases T1 n | reversed by T2 n (%) | cases T1 n | reversed by T2 n (%) | RR | p-value |
Plagiocephaly | 23 | .18 (78) | 13 | 7 (54) | 1.45 | 0.13 |
Brachycephaly* | 25 | 16 (64) | 21 | 9 (43) | 1.49 | 0.15 |
Combination | 10 | .5 (50) | 7 | 0 (0) | – | 0.03 |
NSP in total | 37 | 24 (65) | 27 | 11 (41) | 1.59 | 0.06 |
Late reversal | Late reversal | |||||
cases T2 n | reversed by T3 n (%) | cases T2 n | reversed by T3 n (%) | RR | p-value | |
Plagiocephaly | 10 | 8 (80) | 13 | 10 (77) | 1.04 | 0.86 |
Brachycephaly | 35 | 27 (77) | 25 | 16 (64) | 1.21 | 0.27 |
Combination | 4 | 4 (100) | 9 | 6 (67) | 1.50 | 0.19 |
NSP in total | 41 | 31 (76) | 29 | 19 (66) | 1.15 | 0.36 |
Overall reversal | Overall reversal | |||||
cases T1 n | reversed by T3 n (%) | cases T1 n | reversed by T3 n (%) | RR | p-value | |
Plagiocephaly | 23 | 17 (74) | 13 | 9 (69) | 1.07 | 0.76 |
Brachycephaly | 25 | 18 (72) | 21 | 11 (52) | 1.37 | 0.17 |
Combination | 10 | 4 (40) | 7 | 3 (43) | 0.93 | 0.91 |
NSP in total | 38 | 29 (76) | 27 | 16 (59) | 1.29 | 0.14 |